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A High-School Freshman’s Investing Lesson: Time Horizons Matter

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Jonah Jakab

Apr 25, 2014 4:24 pm ET

You don’t have to be old enough to drive to play master of the universe. I’m a high school freshman who shorted leveraged VIX futures and a marijuana stock, a went long on a Russian equity ETF. But natural gas was my undoing. Maybe it was all pretend, but the lessons were real.